The events so far in the Tribulation include
Antichrist rising to power in the world as the
leader of end-times Babylon, controlling the
European Union, establishing some form of
control over the nations of the world and
establishing a seven year treaty that protects
the nation of Israel.

For the First Seal opened by Jesus in
the Tribulation, Antichrist uses Babylon to
attack and destroy the nation of Egypt; the
details are described in The Burden of Egypt.
It's military strength will be destroyed and the
economy will be in shambles. Many
Egyptians will somehow understand that the
destruction of their nation will be ordained by
God and these will turn to Him for forgiveness
and become faithful followers of God.

In Seal Two, several Muslim nations
around the nation of Israel attempt to attack
and destroy it; Almighty God then miraculously
destroys these nations: Ezekiel chapters 38
and 39. After this
destruction, Antichrist will step in and
control Iran, Libya, Turkey, and the Muslim
nations around the Black and Caspian seas and
the Persian Gulf; he will also probably control
Afghanistan and Pakistan. The oil reserves
of the middle East will then be under
Antichrist's control. The only nations
that could potentially present a threat to his
control will be the nations of the far east,
including China and Japan and possibly
India. During the first half of the
Tribulation they will obey his commands but
during the second half of the Tribulation he
will lose some of his control over them because
Babylon will be destroyed at mid-Tribulation and
he will lose much of his military might
(Destruction
of Babylon).

Seal Three: Hyperinflation

Revelation 6:5
And when he opened the third seal, I heard
the third living creature saying, Come. And
I saw, and behold, a black horse; and he
that sat thereon had a balance in his hand.

It is announced to John that Seal Three
will produce severe inflation, threatening the
economic welfare of nations of the world.
The balance in the time of Jesus was used to
very accurately weigh out a given amount of food
or other item and to be paid by the buyer with a
set amount of money per ounce. Food will
be so precious at this time in the Tribulation
that food will be weighed out in very precise
amounts.

Note that the opening of the third seal is
announced by the third living creature. We
believe that the four living creatures
of the Book of Revelation are representative of
the Bride of Christ. These are the most
faithful of Christ's saints of today and the
2,000 year Church Age and are described in
detail in: Revelation
Chapter Four. Jesus opens the first
four seals of the seven seal scroll, and His
most faithful saints announce to the Apostle
John the judgments that follow. Thus, the
Bride of Christ has been given great
responsibility by Christ and assist Him when He
initiates His judgments upon the nations of the
world during the Tribulation.

Revelation 6:6 And I
heard as it were a voice in the midst of the
four living creatures saying, A measure of
wheat for a denarius, and three measures of
barley for a denarius; and the oil and the
wine hurt thou not.

At this point in the Tribulation, basic grain
foods are very expensive. The barley is a
lesser grain and is representative of the food
of the less-affluent people of the world.
The wheat is a more desirable grain and is the
food for the middle class. As we can
expect, the oil and wine will be food for the
rich people of the world; they always seem to
live well even when other people don't.
The measure of grain mentioned is most likely
only a day's worth of food. A denarius
was a day's wage for a worker of the first
century. The money spent by the poorer
people of the world will most likely be an
entire days salary, so not much will be left
over for anything else. The money spent by
the middle class people of the world may not be
an entire day's wages, but a considerably larger
amount of money will be spent by them on their
food than before the start of the
Tribulation. Perhaps some vegetables and
other foods will be available to purchase or
grow, but the grains that are the main staple
for many peoples of the world will be very
expensive. Only the rich will be able to
afford olive oil, spices, meats, wine and
fruits.

We know that much wheat and barley is currently
being grown by Russia, China, Brazil, Australia,
France, Canada, USA and other countries of the
world and are being imported by several
countries of the world. Prices
of these grains are currently rising because of
internal demand for them plus smaller crop yields
because of droughts and/or flooding.

Today, in many countries of the world,
unemployment is at high levels. During
the Tribulation, unemployment will be even
higher and food, even from charity, will
probably be minimal. Even those with
employment will have a very difficult time
affording enough food to stay healthy.
During the Tribulation, there will most
likely be few overweight people.

Note that the stable grain of rice is
not mentioned. Perhaps the Asian
countries will not be effected as much by
the high cost of barley and rice. This
may also help them to be somewhat less under
control of the Antichrist than western and
African countries will be. They will
still have to pay large amounts for any
barley or wheat they may import.

Just
before and into the Tribulation, could
there be great droughts in the world
that could allow little to be grown of
the staple grains in the countries of
the world? Is it possible that
Babylon will be the primary exporter of
these grains, thereby making huge
profits by selling their grain to the
rest of the world? If so, that
might be one of the factors leading to
Babylon being extremely rich and will
import many luxurious goods from various
countries of the world during the
Tribulation; see Chapters 17 and 18 of
Revelation for details.
We know that the economic conditions in Babylon
will be much better compared to the rest of the
world, because this great country will still be
importing large quantities of automobiles
(carriages), hardwood flooring, perfumes,
jewelry, granite counter tops, wines, exotic
spices and meats and other luxurious merchandise
up until it is destroyed at
mid-Tribulation.

You need oil to drive industry, but you must
have food, so the priorities of the world
will change once Babylon starts charging very
high amounts for its grain products because not
much grain will be possible to obtain from other
countries of the world; such as is done
now. Seal Three will be yet one more
reason that the ten nations of the European
Union will hate Babylon because of the high
prices that it will charge for its grain that it
exports to Europe:

Revelation
17:16 And the ten horns which thou
sawest, and the beast, these shall hate
the harlot, and shall make her desolate
and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and
shall burn her utterly with fire.

To summarize,
the reasons that the world will hate
Babylon are:

It forces its
beliefs on the rest of the world
including replacing their religions
with the worship of
Antichrist. This worship will
be led by the False Prophet.

It's military might
which intimidates the nations of the
world.

It charges very high
prices for its grain exports,
causing the standard of living of
most nations of the world to fall.

It becomes even more
rich than before the start of the
Tribulation. It has the goods
that the rest of the world envies,
but cannot afford.

This great inflation of food prices
will not just stop at the time of seal three,
but will continue through until the end of the
Tribulation. I believe that millions upon
millions of people, particularly in third world
countries will die from starvation and the
destruction that is described in the next seal.

Seal Four: War, Disease and
Attacks by Wild Animals

Revelation
6:7 And when he opened the fourth seal, I
heard the voice of the fourth living
creature saying, Come.

The events
of Seal Four are announced
by one of the four living creatures, the
Bride of Christ. As we previously
mentioned, they have important roles in
God's plan for the Tribulation.

Revelation 6:8 And I
saw, and behold, a pale horse: and he that
sat upon him, his name was Death; and Hades
followed with him. And there was given unto
them authority over the fourth part of the
earth, to kill with sword, and with famine,
and with death, and by the wild beasts of
the earth.

Insurgencies and the rule of Lawlessness

The killing by the sword will most likely be by
armed rebel groups within the various countries of
the world. They could be like the massacres
that are now taking place in Africa for nations that
are poor in resources and the warring factions are
taking whatever money, food, people, resources and
land whenever they can and the major casualties are
usually the innocent women and children. The
killings could also be by rival gangs that now fight
in some of the Central and South American
countries. They take whatever resources they
can because they have the manpower and weapons to do
so. Some of the countries of the world might
just attack and attempt to take over the resources
of neighboring countries. This insurgency will
take place beginning with seal Four and continue
until Mid-Tribulation; then The Lord will pronounce
His judgments upon the unsaved people and
unrepentant nations of the world and initiate The Day of The Lord.
The people of the world will be so desperate for
food and other resources that they will even attack
their neighbors and possibly even their own
relatives so they can survive. Anarchy will
rule in many places in the countries of the world.

Attacks by wild animals

Here are some of the wild beasts that now exist
in the various countries of the world:

There are also animals that heretofore have not
attacked mankind, but could possibly during seal
four including: bird, dog and cat pets, various
eagles and vultures, and zoo animals that will
escape. Of course, there will be rats and wild
swine in many countries of the world; perhaps even
carrying the Bubonic plague in some countries. In
several countries of the world there are mosquitoes
that could cause terrible outbreaks of diseases such
as malaria.

We know that in the Book of Genesis, God placed the
fear of man in the various animals that He created:

Genesis 9:2 And the fear of
you and the dread of you shall be upon every
beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the
heavens; With all wherewith the ground
teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into
your hand are they delivered.

And we know that generally the wild animals of the
world will stay away from attacking mankind unless
they are attacked by man or are possibly
starving. Attacks by lions in Africa and
tigers in India have happened, but happen
infrequently. If there is little food for
mankind then there will also not be much food for
the animals of the world, so mankind could be viewed
by the animals as an available sustenance.

Remember the hornet in the Book of Deuteronomy?

Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover
Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them,
until they that are left, and hide themselves,
perish from before thee.

The countries that have hornets and other bees could
experience stings and perhaps be unable to plant and
gather grains in the gardens of the world; fire ants
could also cause great suffering in the
Americas.

The following verse applies to the unfaithful nation
of Judah during Old Testament times. I believe
that it could also apply to many nations of the
world that undergo the testing of Seal Four:

Joel 1:4 That which the
palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and
that which the locust hath left hath the
canker-worm eaten; and that which the
canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar
eaten.

After the devastation by these insects, the fields
of vegetables will be empty. Little will be
left to feed the nations of the world.

These attacks by the wild beasts of the world I have
mentioned are only a few of the possibilities that
could happen. Perhaps Almighty God will remove
from the various animals and insects the fear of man
and allow them to be attacked after seal four is
opened by Jesus.

Disease

There will be pandemics of various diseases in the
world and could include: west-Nile virus, various
avian and swine influenza, cholera, perhaps even
man-made diseases such as were created in labs in
the old Soviet Union and several countries of the
mid-east such as anthrax. Perhaps these
diseases will somehow get out of the labs and effect
great groups of people in various regions of the
world. It is possible that several new
diseases will arise similar to HIV, Ebola and Avian
influenza that have arisen over the past 30
years. Because of the increase of resistance
of many bacteria and viruses to anti-biotic
medicines, once you get a disease, it may just take
you down.

Which countries will be most effected by Seal
Three and Seal Four?My personal belief that poorer countries such as
in Africa, Central and South America and several
countries of Southeast Asia will be the most
effected by the high price for food, insurgencies
and anarchy and attacks of wild animals and various
disease pandemics. There is already war
in several African countries, at least at the tribal
level. Many people there are dying from
attacks, rapes, AIDS and in-fighting. There
will be many wars fought in these countries so the
small amount of food that will be available will be
fought over; many people will die during these
conflicts.

One-fourth of the world's population will die as a
result of Seal Four. If there are 7 billion
people residing on planet earth when seal four is
unleashed, then about 1.75 billion people will die;
what a gruesome thought.

Seal Five: Persecution of Main Harvest Christians

Before the Tribulation Begins. Have you
noticed that over the last 20-30 years that the
media has tried to reduce the importance of
Christianity in the United States? On some of
the television programs Christians are discussed as
fanatical and as wanting Armageddon and thus the
destruction of civilization to take place. On
some of the websites they state that the Holy Bible
consists of fables and Christians are just
delusional by thinking that there is a God. On many
public buildings the Ten Commandments have existed
for decades and they are now being forced to be
removed from these buildings and Christmas Nativity
scenes are being forced to be removed from town
squares. Have you also noticed that the
greetings from the various TV stations in many cases
have changed from "Merry Christmas" to "Happy
Holidays?" In state and local meetings an
opening prayer has been ridiculed by the
media. I wonder if the United States Senate
and the United States House of Representatives will
sometime soon stop having their opening prayers and
their chaplains?

Where is this repudiation of Christianity leading
us? What will happen to this country when all
forms of ties to God are removed and Christians will
have no say in what happens in the USA? What
will happen to the Christians that want to continue
in their faith?

I'd like to give you my opinion of what will happen
to Christianity in the USA in the near future and
into the Tribulation:

The Bible will be officially labeled as "hate
material" and banned from being printed

You will not be able to purchase a Bible from
online or from a book store

Websites that have on-line versions of the
Bible will told to remove them from their
websites

Christian websites will be told to remove any articles
that comment on the Bible and especially Bible
prophecy

Missionaries will not be allowed to deliver
the Gospel message to other countries of the
world

Some individuals that attempt to deliver the
Biblical message will be arrested and sent to
detention camps. Once there, they will be
"indoctrinated" as to what they should believe.

The chaplains for the US Congress and Senate
will be removed from office as well as any other
state and local government Chaplains and
Chaplains will be removed from the U.S. military

Some Christian churches may be allowed to
continue, but they must present the "official"
message that the government wants them to
deliver. There will be some pastors that
will give in.

Public schools and universities will be forced
to indoctrinate their students on the "evils" of
Christianity

How can Christians now respond? Here's my
opinion. We should continue voting but we
should not place our faith in politicians to pass
legislation that allows Christians to continue
living according to Biblical principles and to
repeal any laws detrimental towards
Christianity. Instead, we should now get on
our knees and pray for the forgiveness of our sins
(I John 1:9). We should stop viewing
pornography, stop committing fornication and
adultery, stop cheating on our taxes, stop
gossiping, start working a full 8 hour day for our
salary, stop elevating our ego, obey the traffic
laws, etc. We should accomplish good works
that glorify God: we should pray, we should
study and obey our Bibles, we should support
missionaries both at home and in the world, we
should fellowship with other Christians and support
each other when enduring sickness or other
difficulties. If most Christians would do
these things, God would remove the persecution from
our lives and the nation would become a more
faithful Christian nation. Here are some
suggestions for improving our faith: Revival of Christianity
and How to Crucify
Self.

Will this happen? Well, no it will
not. I'm sorry, but too many Christians of
today are living their lives just like the rest of
the world does. Almighty God knows our actions
and our attitudes and He is sickened by some of us
avoiding faithful service to Him. Now there
are many Christians today that are living a
sanctified life for Jesus Christ and I commend you,
but I'm afraid that too many aren't. Hence,
God will allow the persecution of today to increase
and some Christians may fall away because of the
persecution. They are still saved, but if they
are not counted as faithful by Jesus, they will be
left behind to be tested during the first half of
the Tribulation: Christians Left
Behind.

When Jesus returns for the First Rapture, just
before the beginning of the Tribulation, He will
personally somehow appear to all Christians and let
them know if they are faithful or not. If
faithful, He will take them to Heaven and they will
thus not have to face any more persecution. If
not faithful, He will tell them that they will be
left behind. He will then instruct them on
what He expects them to accomplish during their 3
1/2 years in the Tribulation: The Last Days of
the Church Age. They will then have the
choice to be severely persecuted in the Tribulation
and receive a great reward at their judgment, or
take it easy and receive a terrible judgment from
Jesus.

Christians Left Behind to endure the first half
of the Tribulation. The Tribulation then
begins and includes the severe persecution of
Christians. In the USA Christianity will be
outlawed and legislation at the national, state and
local levels will be passed making Christianity
illegal. Those Christians that have
administrative, technical or constructive skills
will be forced to provide long hard hours working on
various projects at the national or local
levels. They will be watched during their time
on the job and receive little or no salary and poor
food. If they say anything about God or even attempt
to pray, they will be severely punished. They
will work seven days a week and possibly dawn to
dusk. They will literally be worked to
exhaustion:

Daniel 7:25 And
he shall speak words against the
Most High, and shall wear out
the saints of the Most
High; and he shall think to
change the times and the law;
and they shall be given into his
hand until a time and times and
half a time.

These individuals: The elderly and the disabled,
whether Christian or not, will probably be murdered,
such as Hitler did in Germany to the disabled or
mentally handicapped individuals in the 30s and
40s. Those younger Christians that have few
skills will probably used for manual labor but they
will not last very long.

It is possible that the False Prophet will give
Christians the opportunity to disavow their
faith. Most will remain faithful to Jesus
Christ but one group of Christians will not (The Five,
Two and One Talent Christians). The
unfaithful one Talent Christians of today will
understand the persecution that is coming and many
will disavow their faith or at least not stand up to
be counted as a Christian that follows Jesus Christ.
All peoples, Christian or not, will know of the
severe persecution that will be inflected on left
behind Christians. The unfaithful Christian
will want no part of it and will be afraid and
remain silent regarding his faith.

Revelation 6:9
And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw
underneath the altar the souls of them that
had been slain for the word of God, and for
the testimony which they held:

The fifth seal of the seven seal scroll
will be opened by Jesus just before
mid-Tribulation. At this point in the
Tribulation, Antichrist has literally worked the
faithful Christian to exhaustion and they are of
no further worth to him and he will then direct
their extermination. They have been
faithful to Jesus and witnessed to the guards
and supervisors that controlled them. They
have prayed in public not only for themselves,
but even for those that persecuted them.
They studied the Holy Bible whenever they could,
perhaps from memory of some of the verses.
They were very faithful.

The Antichrist will allow no more of their
testimonies and will have guillotines brought
into the various detention camps and will murder
these faithful believers in Jesus Christ.
Immediately upon their death, God will have
angels take their souls to Heaven to be with
Him. At this point they do not have their
eternal, holy bodies and their souls will be
somehow stored underneath the altar that is in
the Holy Place in the Heavenly temple.

Revelation 6:10 and
they cried with a great voice, saying, How
long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou
not judge and avenge our blood on them that
dwell on the earth?

The faithful Main Harvest Christians suffered
through 3 1/2 years of brutal work camps and
were murdered with great pain by the guillotine,
causing much blood to flow. They then want
justice to take place upon those that murdered
them. They then ask Jesus Christ: "When
will you judge and punish those that persecuted
and then murdered us?"

Revelation 6:11 And
there was given them to each one a white
robe; and it was said unto them, that they
should rest yet for a little time, until
their fellow-servants also and their
brethren, who should be killed even as they
were, should have fulfilled [their course].At this point in the first
half of the Tribulation, there are few Main Harvest
Christians that are still alive. They will be
so beat up by the persecutions and hard work that
they are totally spent. They are probably at
this point near starvation and are beckoning for
Jesus to return and take them to Heaven in The Main Harvest
Rapture. Those that have already been
murdered will not have long to wait for justice to
take place, for all those Christians that Jesus
expects to die for Him, their testing is just about
complete. Only a few more will be murdered by
the False Prophet. Jesus lets His saints that
have already died for Him know that the major player
in this terrible crime will soon be destroyed at
mid-Tribulation: The Destruction
of Babylon. After their prayer to God,
this destruction may happen in only a few days or
weeks.

Jesus gives His faithful a literal white robe and it
outwardly shows that they have had good works that
glorify God during their time in the Tribulation;
they will be able to wear this white robe as soon as
the Main Harvest Rapture takes place at
mid-Tribulation. All those Christians that
have died and are under the heavenly altar as well
as those Christians that are still alive on the
earth will be taken to Heaven and all will receive
their immortal holy bodies and stand before Jesus
for the judgment of their works (The Judgment Seat
of Christ).

Watch and Pray

I suggest that you pray to God and let Him know that
you don't want to be left behind to experience the
persecution and destruction that will take place
during the Tribulation:

(KJV) Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and
pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass,
and to stand before the Son of man.

So those Christians that are continually serving
Jesus and are watching and praying for the His
return for the First Fruits Rapture will escape all
seven years of the Tribulation. This is
guaranteed by obeying this command of
Jesus! Here is my prayer:

Lord, I don't want to be left behind to be
persecuted by Antichrist and to experience the
suffering that will happen to the unfaithful
Christian of today. I am watching for the
return of Jesus and beckon for His soon return: (COME LORD JESUS. Revelation 22:20).
I pray that I am counted worthy to escape all
seven years of the Tribulation and to be taken to
Heaven by Jesus in the First Fruits Rapture (The Coming Rapture)
as a member of the Church of Philadelphia.
I will then stand before Jesus for my
Judgment. At that time I pray that I am
counted as a faithful son of Yours. Through Jesus
Christ my Lord, Amen.